Sparky's general questions topic

Okay so I've been making a lot of topics on this board recently. So I figure one topic to ask all my questions in is probably a good idea to not clutter the boards with questions from the same poster. lol



Anyways..my question for now. Defence debuffs. Do they affect your global defence directly? Meaning do they simply just subtract from your global defences? Or do they only affect a certain types of defences? I would test that but I don't have a toon that's good enough for reliable testing. Generally what I'm asking about is things like:
1) Defence provided by the "Luck", "Good Luck", and "Phenomenal Luck" inspirations.
2) Defence provided by shields from other teammates like Force Fields shields and Cold Domination shields...and probably can add Fortitude from Empathy to the list.
3) Defence provided by being within range for defence boost Auras from friends like Manuevers from Leadership, Grant Cover from Shield Defence, or the VEAT defence auras.
I'm leaning towards them actually just directly minimizing your defences regardless of the source of them, but I want to make sure of it.

Thanks in advance!

This seems oddly complicated, so I feel like I must be missing something but...

Defense debuffs subtract from your defense globally, every value will be reduced by the number of the defense debuff.
The only thing that will change that is having "defense debuff resistance" but again, DDR is global so it's really very simple.

Defense debuffs subtract from your "base defense" stat. This stat is normally 0%: debuffs lower it, while almost no powers raise it. I believe it's raised temporarily by purple inspirations.

My understanding is this:

Your current Defense is the sum of all the buffs and debuffs on you at any given time.

So if you had (lethal attack incoming, all numbers vs. lethal)

Invincibility providing 11% Defense
Deflection shield providing 24%
recent Parry providing 18% Defense
Someone else's maneuvers providing 5.5% Defense
Recent hits by four Warrior swords at -7.5% each

You'd have (11+24+18+5.5 - 30) which should be 28.5% Defense. If I can do math, which is not guaranteed.

That's what that little stack of buffs and debuffs under your HP/end/XP bar keeps track of: the effects on you.

I don't know when it's recalculated; I haven't seen the source code. I'd guess either "every time your effect bar changes" or "every time you get attacked" or both.

I have another question regarding defence.
We all know that the "soft cap" is 45% to defence because the chance for enemy to hit is 50%.
I also know that for each level the enemy has on you they gain a 5% ToHit bonus. So when fighting +4 enemies their base ToHit chance goes up to 70% instead of 50% right?
So...if I want a toon that has "capped" defence to all possible critters in the game I will need to have 65% Defence. Is this right or am I reading this wrong?

Well, the net effect is that higher-level bosses (within +6) and the like hit you more often than 5%, but not much more often; 6.25%, 8%, 12% in some cases. You can't reduce that any farther, but they can't increase it either (except for custom AE crtiiers with Build Up and the like). It's still pretty effective protection. Best of all, from a character design point of view, because there's no benefit to endlessly pumping defense (after you've hit the soft cap) there's no "arms race" pressure to do so, and you can concetrate on improving other areas of performance.

Very true. But I was asking this specifically because my Arch/MM Blaster (my farmer) gets hit often on +2/+3 farms even with ~60% Defence (Pocket emp on follow using Fort). It really annoys me especially since a crit from a boss can outright OHKO me.

Well they still have a 5% chance to hit you, and if it's a farmer I'm guessing the mission is set between 6-8 team size which means a lot of attacks coming at you. When even one of those attacks is noticeable it makes you think you're getting hit more often than you really are. 5% still means you can get hit 80 times in a row with incredibly back luck after all. It's not a hard 5 out of 100 will hit you. Rather, when the attack results are stretched out to a vary large pool of data you'll find it's 5% of the time.

In short, it's psychological because you notice the hits rather than the 95% of the time you get missed, because you expect to be missed, but hate to be hit.

Thank you for the advice. I well tend to that

But now I have another question...
The Guassian's Synchronized Fire Control: Chance for Build up IO...Does it work same as other procs? So, say for example if I slot that in the Tactics toggle. Will it have a chance to proc every 10 seconds? And if it did who will it affect? Only me or anything in range? I'm pretty sure it's only me, but it never hurts to check anyways.


Thanks in advance

Yep. With good recharge and using Follow Up/Blinding Feint often it should proc rather often too... Unfortunately this won't work for me at this time because I'm using a corruptor =/
I did, however, put the Decimation "Chance for Build up" proc in my T1 attack. So, basically the same idea as slotting the GSFC in Follow Up/Blinding Feint

I've seen INV Brute, Scrappers and Tanks use the Gaussian's in Invincibility. I believe the proc only fires when Invincibility has an enemy in range. I've never personally tested it, but I assume it works similar to a WP character slotting a Numina Proc in RttC.

Not that this info can help you personally, just thought I participate and bump my post count.

Oh and HAI SPARKY!!

OMG IT'S CLOUDED
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It would make sense to only start procing when there are people in Invincibility's range. Interesting idea. Would've never thought of that, lol.